-
Please Remember: Members are only permitted to share their own experiences. Members are not qualified to give medical advice. Additionally, everyone manages their health differently. Please be respectful of other people's opinions about their own diabetes management.
T2 diagnosed on Monday
- Thread starter Natoni
- Start date
- Status
Leadinglights
Well-Known Member
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 2
- Pronouns
- She/Her
Welcome to the forum.
Some fruits and fruit juices are certainly food to be very careful of but the best fruits are berries as they are lower carb, tropical fruits are high carb as are most fruit juices.
Everybody is different in what foods they can tolerate but this link may be helpful as an initial guidance. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Carbs-Cals-Carb-Calorie-Counter/ is a useful resource for carb values of various foods and also this to give you some do's and don'ts and some meal ideas. https://lowcarbfreshwell.co.uk/
How much work you will need to do depends on how far you are into the diabetic zone, an HbA1C of 48mmol/mol will give you that diagnosis.
Windy
Well-Known Member
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 2
Hi Natoni, you can also find out more about diet and diabetes by signing up for the Learning Zone and doing some of the courses there.
Can you swap out the fruit juice for low sugar squash? Or unsweetened tea or fruit tea? It might be helpful to start with a food diary for a week and record all the meals you have. You can look at them and see if there's swaps you can make from higher carbohydrate foods to lower ones, like having less potatoes in a meal, and adding more vegetables like spinach/cauliflower/broccoli instead, that way, you can gently reduce the amount of carbs without feeling that you're being starved!
I bought some diabetes cookbooks when I was first diagnosed and found them helpful. I got the Blood sugar diet book by Michael Mosley and also the Diabetes weight loss cookbook by Katie and Giancarlo Caldesi and learned a bit more about diet and diabetes there.
If you're back at the doctors soon, ask them if you can go on a diabetes course if they're run in your area.
Sarah
Can you swap out the fruit juice for low sugar squash? Or unsweetened tea or fruit tea? It might be helpful to start with a food diary for a week and record all the meals you have. You can look at them and see if there's swaps you can make from higher carbohydrate foods to lower ones, like having less potatoes in a meal, and adding more vegetables like spinach/cauliflower/broccoli instead, that way, you can gently reduce the amount of carbs without feeling that you're being starved!
I bought some diabetes cookbooks when I was first diagnosed and found them helpful. I got the Blood sugar diet book by Michael Mosley and also the Diabetes weight loss cookbook by Katie and Giancarlo Caldesi and learned a bit more about diet and diabetes there.
If you're back at the doctors soon, ask them if you can go on a diabetes course if they're run in your area.
Sarah
- Status